religion

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

– Franz Kafka, letter to Oskar Pollak, 27th January 1904

We are delighted to announce that Errant is now open for submissions to its fifth issue.

Synchronicity and Intuition: Exploring Meaningful Coincidences and Inner Knowing
an online transdisciplinary conference

June 15-16, 2026

Online, Via Zoom

Proposal deadline: May 15, 2026

Fees:
£100 (for both presenters and attendees)
Prices exclude booking fees

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2026/03/16/synchronicity/ 

Call for Chapter Contributions
An Edited Volume: Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Editor: Dr. Gabrie’l J. Atchison
Proposed Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.

As the series editor for Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives for Bloomsbury Publishing, I am writing to invite you to consider submitting a chapter proposal for consideration to be included in Ecofeminism and Islam in the Middle East and North America (MENA). 

Call for Papers

Edited Volume on Religion, Transhumanism, and Posthumanism

Working Title:
Gods and men? Post- and Transhumanism in Interfaith Perspective

Overview
We invite contributions to an edited academic volume offering a critical theological reflection on transhumanism and posthumanism from an interfaith perspective. While these developments have already generated a growing body of religious and theological responses, this volume seeks to move beyond initial engagements by critically assessing their assumptions, methods, and conclusions.

Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for RealityCall for Papers and PresentationsDetails

Our Vision:  Throughout Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia, Black people have shared values and beliefs about God, the Cosmos and each other embodied in our spirituality.  This edited volume is a celebration of shared African and African Diasporic Spirituality in all its vibrant, beautiful, and powerful iterations.  We are inspired by the life-giving guidance of Harriet Tubman, Howard Thurman, Octavia Butler, Cheikh Anta Diop, Lama Rod Owens, Malidoma Patrice Somé, Sobonfu Somé, Tricia Hersey, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Cole Arthur Riley, Pauli Murray, William Barber, bell hooks, Thomas Sankara, Rev. William J. Barber, Jawanza Eric Clark, Flora Wilson Bridges, Dwight N. Hopkins, Peter J.

CALLING ALL 2SLGBTQ+ WRITERS WHO EXPERIENCED RELIGIOUS TRAUMA. I am excited to announce this Call for Submissions for my new anthology of creative nonfiction narratives! Entitled Queer and Trembling: Stories of LGBTQ+ Religious Trauma, this anthology will bring together a collection of stories about 2SLGBTQ+ religious trauma from Christian contexts, whether they be evangelical, fundamentalist, Pentecostal, Catholic, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, Orthodox, etc. The collection is under contract with Jessica Kingsley Publishers (an imprint of Hachette UK) and will likely be released in 2028. 

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Call for Papers for Volume 9

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his letters, critical volumes of his complete prose, the 2015 edition of his complete poems, and the forthcoming critical edition of his plays.

All critical approaches are welcome, as are essays pertaining to any aspect of Eliot’s work as a poet, critic, playwright, editor, foremost exemplar of modernism, or his influence on twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture.

Have you marked your calendar for Atla Annual 2026? As announced in November, Atla signed a three-year agreement to co-locate the annual conference with the SBL/AAR Annual Meetings. This year, Atla Annual will take place November 20 through 23, 2026, in Denver, Colorado. 

Like the previous four iterations of the conference, Atla Annual 2026 will be a hybrid event. Regardless of your plan to join us in person or online, we hope you will consider submitting a conference proposal.

54th Annual Conference on South Asia, October 28-31, 2026

Transformative Language: Literacies of Mind, Body, and Soul

Southeast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature

Samford University

Birmingham, AL

October 22-24, 2026

Submission Deadline:  July 1, 2026

Registration Deadline: September 1, 2026

Keynote Speaker: Jason Baxter (Director for the Center for Beauty and Culture at Benedictine University) 

We invite submissions for a special session at the 2026 PAMLA meeting (Seattle, WA; November 12-15, 2026) on “Biblical and Middle Eastern Literatures.” All papers will be allotted about 20 minutes. Papers must be presented in person.

This year’s convention theme, “After the Archive,” lends itself well to the study of Religion and Literature. The cultural importance of folklore and sacred stories means that keeping an archive of them for posterity through written and oral storytelling is imperative. However, the nature of that archive is unique in that these stories are ever-changing as they are retold and adapted over the generations.

"I don't know what Christmas is, but Christmas time is here": Santa Claus, Christmas, and Implicit Religion in SFF 

Abstracts (250 words) are invited for papers exploring Santa Claus and/or the Christmas holiday in science fiction, speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and graphic novels.  Considerations of the interrelation of secular and religious themes in SFF Christmas, implicit religion, and contemporary ritual welcome. 

MLA '27 held in LA in January; for more information on the conference see https://www.mla.org/Events/2027-MLA-Convention  

Deadline:  March 25, 2026